attaché

• attache

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché (literally “attached”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈtæʃeɪ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌætæˈʃeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

attaché (plural attachés)

1. A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.

   Little did anyone suspect that the military attaché was one of the world's craftiest spies.

   • 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:

     One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.

• IPA^(key): /a.ta.ʃe/

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attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)

1. attached, attached to, bound, committed, connected, devoted, fastened, fixed, joined-up, secured, strapped, tethered, tie-on, tied, wired

   Synonyms: fixé (“fixed”), lié (“linked”)

attaché m (plural attachés, feminine attachée)

1. attaché, attache (employment of civil servant in several administrations)

   Un attaché à la Bibliothèque nationale. ― An attaché to the National Library.

   Un attaché au cabinet d’un ministre. ― An attaché to the office of a minister.

   • 1937 March, Georges Simenon, chapter II, in Le Blanc à lunettes [The Bespectacled White Man], Paris: Éditions Gallimard:

     Mon mari est attaché militaire à l’ambassade anglaise d’Ankara.

     My husband is military attaché to the British Embassy in Ankara.

• attaché de presse

attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)

1. past participle of attacher

• “attaché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• achetât, tacheta

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché.

• IPA^(key): /a.taˈʂɛ/

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• Rhymes: -aʂɛ
• Syllabification: a‧tta‧ché

attaché m pers (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy, politics) attaché (diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role)

• attaché in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• attaché in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• attaché in PWN's encyclopedia

From French attaché.

• Rhymes: -eː

attaché c

1. attaché